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This page contains an article titled "LAUGHTER AS A CURE" discussing therapeutic benefits of humor and laughter for physical ailments. The text argues that hearty laughter aids digestion and various illnesses, referencing remedies like "Dooley" capsules and "Hunk" Smith solutions, as well as theatrical entertainment's medicinal value. The main cartoon below shows a "POSTAL SAVINGS BANK" depicted as an enormous cannon or tube, with two figures (appearing to be common citizens or workers) operating it. The caption reads "LOOK OUT! IT MAY BE LOADED!" This appears to satirize the U.S. Postal Savings System—a government banking service for ordinary citizens—suggesting skepticism about its safety or reliability. The cannon metaphor implies the system is potentially dangerous or unpredictable to users.

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Fifth Aveo 3 Wrote James M. Lee, Managin: duilding, Chamsery Saaraach's News bachange, Me JUDGE cannot be found at any cews-at HACK Nust or yUtncb all LAUGHTER ysician of standing. arty laugh- F most od news, that the off that the se induced the liver ny FOREIGN ph rts that srood, hi ter is a sure cure our bodily ills. It is g and June can quite belie eseribed remedy will prc cious, It is well hearty shaking up the ex by laughter gi is equal amount of from a ride in a any ordinary mass pre known taxicab or se of mirth is fully guarded and properly applied. For insta dy for a cracked lip, and trouble broad grin is a i ted by an indul- h avermiform appendix ix not always ob gence in a series of gullaws, Then, too, if one of the younger generation has the m or the whooping cough, it is a grave question whethi justified, as many of them do, in taking them to the theater for the purpose of applying a farce remedy for their ills. On the whole, lest this announcement result in obvious abuses, those who ha the materia medica in charge should carefully investigate the precis edial qualities of each of our humorists, and, having ascertained these, have them graded, scientifically de ned, and authoritatively placed in drug stores, there to be sold under prop- erly protectiv Te will ni re Look our! re w York. JOHN A. SLEICHER, President. Cable Address, “ Judgar! PW ary. Arthue ‘I 1130-7 Marquette Fuildine, Chicago Grant E. Hamilton, Art Editor, LY AT 10 CKNTH AC Uy draft on New Vork, or by CONTHIBUTOWS must nse 4 stamped and self-addressed enidelope with ail manascnDtse ontal-card or by letter. AS A CURE. peradventure ch from the ew capsules of Mr. ingly subject himself to the which ly de- E who suffers mmediate relief from a Is, for him to unwit “Dunk Smith solut the sufferer fi poisoni , too, it may be said in. this tion that a man suddenly prostrated by et with a recklessly driven automo- bile might be saved by a ¢ rt to“ First Ade to the In- 1 yet b ermancnt cripple because of the sudden © appl of a Troadway comic opera. Then, in operations, the use of London Pech as an anesthetic might be attended with afte cts of a serious nature, leaving him on recovery a prey ton 8 the employment of mild doses of the artment"? of the and leave him afterward with an n secu. before me is espe ne conne oni jured, mea and unscient ion surgi spapers ently to sl ol open mind. other hand, it is possil would put him gg entirely f On th that even here there is danger, for if, in applying the Waif: nurse should allow a few grains of the editorial humor to be found upon the same page of these pers to fallinto the mixture, the patient might ne ke, or, if did, with a grave chance of falling a victim to biliousness, It will, some time for the new Humor School of M tifically, and it may be that certain people in the world, wedded to their squills, their castor oil and their ipecac, will fight strenuously against an innovation t would sub- stitute the humor of Hall Caine for the milder emollients to which they have b re vurse, tak: work out its theories se rn used, doubt of ention y be said of laughte cure, there is ne al After all, it is the ounce of p that is worth the pound of cure, > 4 Mle slr MAY RE LOADED